Help NAS drives (again, again)

[Deebs]

So glad I bought 8 x 2tb drives for around 60 quid each now!

 

[soze]

Sales guy in work is laughing his arse off. His customer wants to return 500 2TB disks that cost us £40 each so as well as getting a restocking fee he will make at least double on each of them

 

[DaGaffer]

Aren't restocking fees illegal now?

 

[soze]

I don't think so when we send stuff back to distribution we pay a handling fee. I do not know if its different rules for resellers vs consumers.

 

[SheepCow]

I think they are if it's all still boxed and cellophaned

 

[Deebs]

Freenas 8.03 RC1 is out and looking great with lots of nice new enhancements

 

[MYstIC G]

RC2: http://www.freenas.org/about/news/item/freenas-803-rc2-is-ready-for-testing

 

[Starman]

RC3 is now available via the same download link not sure what has changed.

 

[MYstIC G]

http://www.freenas.org/about/news/item/freenas-803-release-notes

8.0.3 final.

 

[MYstIC G]

If any of you have been grouched out by missing out on the previous cashback offers for the N36L then fear not because

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-...-ebuyer-dabs-with-10-with-sale10-code-1104618

The N40L (next model up) now comes with the £100 cashback.

 

[Deebs]

Am now running 8.0.3 without any problems. Looking forward to 8.2 with an updated ZFS pool

 

[MYstIC G]

8.0.3 for me introduced a pain in the backside that the network interface may or may not allow internet related commands at seemingly random (needs the interface to be taken down and brought up to get rid of) from the command line. Other than that it's a lot faster.

Working at the moment on doing a build that includes Serviio/Java built directly into it because I hate having to add stuff into FreeNAS by bashing away at the command line as supposed to doing a subversion update and then running the build command.

 

[gmloki]

Soze, where you work dude ?

 

[soze]

A smb reseller / it support company.

 

[Embattle]

Synology DM4 Beta is starting - http://www.synology.com/dsm/dsm4.0_beta.php?lang=enu

 

[Deebs]

Looking to install this http://protosd.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-new-year-freenas-803-with-zfs-v28.html on my spare NAS server over the weekend. Will put a SSD in for the dedupe and see what happens.

 

[MYstIC G]

I wouldn't T. I've been reading up on his stuff. No way back if he borks his stuff. I've put in Multimedia build and it's much better.

 

[Deebs]

I wouldn't T. I've been reading up on his stuff. No way back if he borks his stuff. I've put in Multimedia build and it's much better.

It is my spare NAS. Plus I want to play with ZFS 28. What's the URL to the MM build?

 

[MYstIC G]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/

8.0.3 Multimedia

I've got this running at the moment, it's far easier to get Transmission, etc. running on it and I've got a working Serviio server running and it was just a few command line package installs.

 

[Deebs]

8.0.3 p1 is now out, upgraded my primary NAS to this and all seems ok.